Observations

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Skiing, snowboarding, snowmachining, hiking, walking, and all other methods of travel or recreation on snow are dangerous and a potential hazard to personal safety. Each person who ventures onto snow is responsible for his or her own safety. Many snow travelers find that education, information, and experience can increase their safety when they are on snow. The public observations reported on this site may appear to offer information about the safety of traveling or recreating on snow, but it is critical to remember that such observations are not evaluated or edited for accuracy and represent the subjective experience of the author.

Individuals may have widely differing perceptions, for a given location, date, and time, of the safety of traveling or recreating on snow, of avalanche hazards, and of skiing or snowboarding conditions. The hazards and conditions reported in an observation can change rapidly. In addition, individuals can differ greatly in both their perception of objective hazards and their acceptance of the risk to personal safety of these hazards.

Natural Avalanche crossed Lower Russian Lake Trail. Debris came down crossing the trail and hit the Lake. Debris is 20' deep where it crossed the trail approximately 1/4 mile before Barber Cabin. This …

Snowmachine triggered large avalanche in the Cantwell area weekend of May 12-13th. Rider was caught and carried, escaped uninjured. This was a North facing upper elevation slope. Coordinates not know …

Widespread avalanches on all aspects and elevations. Many of them appear to have slid on depth hoar. Crowns up to 8 feet deep and 500 feet wide. None of them appear to have been very recent, I assume …

Widespread recent avalanches. Observed on all aspects and elevations that I could see (2,000 to 4,500 ft and generally east half of compass). Sizes ranged from small banks to entire faces. Appeared to …

2 Avalanches Observed on Moose North on Monday. Debris made it down to lower elevations. Debris is estimated to be 4-6' deep due to terrain trap on the southern avalanche. Picture was taken looking So …

We snowmachined up to the Lost Lake area today from the Lost Lake trailhead just outside Seward. The last 3 days in Seward have been extremely windy and heavy wind loading and active snow transport ca …